Poor family mother and son

As people get older, it is easy to stray from the topic when talking, because they have experienced too many things, and they are connected to other places while talking.

When the old man saw that the nobleman was impatient to listen, he quickly returned to the topic: "After the war, Bushui Town no longer needed to be guarded. After most of the garrison withdrew, the town became deserted;

Without the garrison to spend money here, brothels will close down, restaurants will not be able to operate, and ordinary people will have no place to do odd jobs, and there will be complaints;

In addition, a large number of Donglun people fled from the disaster, and later the territory of Kushui Town and the adjacent counties were merged into one place, which is now Heman County;

After the merger, those of us from Donglun became tenants of the Daxuan people;
We are a family of ten, including old and young. We couldn't find our master to take us in at first. No one is willing to support half of the people who are not considered laborers, right?
We can only spread out and work part-time for others;

We don’t have many people hiring us as part-time workers. If anyone wants to hire us, they hire locals.

Er Binzi is smart and knows how to calculate accounts. He can find some leisure work to help with accounting, but we can't. We just rely on old people, which means we only have one meal but no meal;
Later, Erbinzi found a family that could take us in, and he settled down;

The owner brought us to this land, which he had just bought, and asked us to open up wasteland;
Then we have to have a place to live, so we fell in love with this ruined temple;
This dilapidated temple is already in disrepair. It’s snowing heavily outside and lightly snowing inside. The scaffolding is still high. Even if we block up the broken windows and doors, we can’t even light a fire to warm it up;

At any rate, we managed to survive the winter, and in the spring we built a house by demolishing and ruining the temple, but it was still built with bricks and the foundation was good;
In order to make enough bricks, we built the house together, using dismantled bricks for all load-bearing parts, and using mud bricks for the rest. No, after more than ten years, it is still quite strong;

By the way, this room now was originally a ruined temple;
This room has the best foundation. It is for Da Binzi, Er Binzi and his brothers. If it weren't for Er Binzi, we wouldn't be able to settle down, right?Our families are arranged on both sides. "

Chu Qing looked at the room up and down, but couldn't find anything similar to what it looked like back then. It was similar to any poor person's house.

Only the fact that the family had a kang instead of sleeping on wooden boards meant that their lives were improving - they could afford firewood and a kang, which was considered affluent among Daxuan tenants.

The golden eagle who delivered the letter has not returned yet, so Chu Qing decided to spend the night here tonight.

Not long after eating, Chu Qing suggested going out for a walk to eat.

Xiaobao readily agreed and said, "Mom, would you like to bring your candlestick with you? Let's go fishing!"

"Do you remember?" Chu Qing was pleasantly surprised. After she took Xiaobao out of the ruined temple, she walked for a while and encountered a creek. She used the candlestick she picked up from the temple to catch two fish!
Xiaobao nodded: "Remember, I can remember things, but I can't remember the way."

After he finished, he said: "If I hadn't pooped first that day, I wouldn't have been hungry so fast!"

Chu Qing: "..."

After all, Xiaobao has grown up and walks faster. Chu Qing remembers that he walked for a long time before seeing the creek. Now he only walked for half an hour to reach it, not counting the time to pick up firewood on the road.

Xiangzi and the others were lazily following behind on their horses, muttering: "You guys think it's treason for us to ride horses and let the boss and Xiaobao have their legs?"

Zhuo Yao did not ride a horse. He led his own, Chu Qing's and Xiaobao's horses and followed behind. When he heard Xiangzi's words:
"I heard that, the boss went to Wushu Village from here. At that time, the boss didn't know that Xiaobao was her biological son, and Xiaobao was only less than three years old;

She was a woman with nothing in her hands and a baby in tow. She didn't know if she was scared or not.
If it were me, I wouldn't be able to take the baby on the road! "Xiangzi and the others couldn't make jokes anymore, and sighed: "Yes, how can you take care of your children if you can't keep your mouth full? "

Chu Qing and Xiaobao ran out to look for memories, but they first recalled the memories of the guards——

"It's okay for you. General Hong has entrusted you to the boss. The day after I retired from the military camp, the salary paid by the camp was stolen. I was hungry for several days!"

"Me too! I thought that with money in my pocket, I could survive for a while and find work, but I didn't expect that it would be gone on the same day!"

"You said how stupid we were back then. We didn't even know it was stolen. We thought we didn't have to work hard. We couldn't get enough of the hustle and bustle in the streets!"

"You guys are so big-hearted and want to watch the excitement. I was left to worry about it at that time. The camp gave me an extra month of military pay because I had a fever.

They only gave me twenty taels of silver in total and nothing else. They said they were considerate of my illness, but in fact they were afraid that if I lingered on, they would have to pay for food and doctor visits!
I was holding on to the money in my waist for fear of being stolen, and even more afraid of being dragged into the labor force. I went from shop to shop looking for work, and I would be kicked out once I asked a question. If I dared to ask more than once, I would be in trouble. Hit me with a stick! "

Someone else said: "I was even worse at that time and was targeted by thieves. I thought to myself at that time, I can survive on the battlefield only because I am not afraid of death and dare to kill people. How can I be afraid of you, a thief?
I was really stupid at that time. I deliberately walked to a deserted place and wanted to teach the thief a lesson. Who would have thought that the thief had an accomplice!
With my little ability, I might be able to fight my way out with a knife, but I was empty-handed and there were six people on the other side. My kung fu was not bad. I was on the ground in just a few strokes and couldn't get up!

In the end, my money was robbed, my clothes and shoes were also stripped, and only my pants were left. They didn't want them because they were scratched in the fight, otherwise I would have to be naked! "

Xiangzi slapped his forehead: "Yes! I remembered it! I hired you. When others asked how much they could give you a month, you asked if you could wear some clothes on credit first!"

Everyone burst into laughter, with bitterness in the laughter.

When they were recruited into the army, they were called "good men", and when they were discharged from the army, they were called "liangzi" and "food eaters". Especially for refugees like them who were captured and sent to the army, they were even called "thieves with the army".

"Good iron cannot be hammered with nails, and good men cannot be soldiers." Daxuan's soldiers were not as respected as Chu Qing initially thought.

"Either take the children of the camp to serve the army, or recruit hungry people to replenish the city, or use the guilty to serve as slaves." This was the first choice method of recruiting soldiers in Daxuan, and the second was to recruit men based on their household registration.

The reason for this is that among these people who have not committed crimes "if they do not accept them as soldiers, they are afraid of becoming thieves", while those who have committed crimes "use punishment as soldiers and kill two birds with one stone."

Zhuo Yao said: "You said it was so difficult for us, how did the boss survive?"

Chu Qing, who was walking in front, listened to their discussion, turned around and said with a smile: "Cats have their own paths, and dogs have their own paths. You can find work in a shop, while I will go to the village to find a place to stay!"

A woman with a child can always make people lower their vigilance and feel sympathy. "

At this point, Chu Qing said again as if he was going to piss off these big guys: "The key is that I was lucky enough to meet Mr. Xie and Village Chief Wu!"

These words did not make the guards angry. Instead, they smiled naively: "We were lucky enough to meet the boss!"